Best practice has been to patch systems--both operating systems and applications--every 28-30 days (a month). Some don't even do it this often (as shown by the recent Microsoft Exchange hack). This cycle is based on the practice that Microsoft and other vendors...
Being a business services company, Atlas doesn't serve a lot of gamers. But sometimes a working parent wants to protect all the computers in their home, not just theirs. Sometimes those computers belong to gamers. And some gamers want to load software that gets around...
There is a widespread misconception that data created and stored in Google Workspace does not need to be backed up. While Google certainly has you covered when it comes to any outages on their part, recovering data due to accidental or malicious deletion is your...
Acer, one of the world's largest computer manufacturers, was hit with a $50 million dollar ransomware attack. It is the largest ransomware demand currently known. Rumours have surfaced that attackers gained access to Acer's systems through the Microsoft Exchange...
You're probably aware that Android is a Google product. So it should be no surprise that Google Workspace users can have their Android registered devices managed through their corporate Workspace account. If you are a business that gives your employees cell phones or...
In January, a state-sponsored hacking group from China known as "Hafnium" discovered 4 "zero-day exploits" in Microsoft's Email Server software called "Microsoft Exchange." You may have heard about this in the news, and you are probably asking whether you should be...
It's as Easy as This... Sometime in late 2019, an employee with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) plugged a personal device into their work computer to charge it. The device had a file infected with the Ryuk ransomware package. While connected, they opened a...
With Canada solidly in a "second wave" situation and Alberta's infection rates soaring, businesses have good reason to be concerned. Do you know how your business will survive if a key person on your team needs to quarantine for 2 weeks or worse? Does your business...
There comes a time when every computer has lived out its usefulness. What to do with old hardware? Manage Your Risks First of all, consider the risks. Running any Windows version earlier than Windows 10 is a huge risk. Older versions of Windows including: 7, Vista,...
Early in the pandemic, all the virtual meeting platforms: Google Meet, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, and Zoom, found themselves in a gold rush. Zoom was the early leader--in part because of price: a freemium version allowed group meetings of up to 40...
I just received a Facebook Messenger message from a good friend yesterday. He apparently saw me in a video and thought I'd be interested in watching it. He's a friend who does send me interesting stuff once in a while and there was no reason not to click through....
October is Cybersecurity Month and the Canadian CyberSecurity Conference, MapleSEC, is running October 5 - 7. On Monday, Terry Cutler of Cyology Labs in Montreal shared a case study of a major Canadian company hit by ransomware. “IT guys are always asking for money,”...